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Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.

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"For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of...

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Main Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Carolina > Charleston > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
African American women.
African American women > Social conditions.
African Americans.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Antislavery movements.
Freedmen.
Freedmen > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Social conditions.
South Carolina > Charleston.
United States.
History.

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